page_title: Bernhard Pauss
section_title: Education and early career
hierarchical_section_title: Bernhard Pauss / Education and early career
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss fotografert av Gustav Borgen. Trolig ca. 1890–1895.
context_page_description: Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss was a Norwegian theologian, educator, author and humanitarian and missionary leader, who was a major figure in girls' education in Norway in his lifetime.
  He was headmaster and owner of Nissen's Girls' School and head of its affiliated women's teachers college, the first higher education institution open to women in Norway. He was also a lecturer at the Norwegian Military Academy. He was chairman of the Norwegian Santal Mission, in succession to Oscar Nissen, and the first editor-in-chief of its journal Santalen. He also wrote and edited several schoolbooks in Norwegian and German, including the reading book series Læsebog i Modersmaalet, that was one of the most widely used schoolbooks in Norway for over half a century. A village in India, Pauspur, was named in his honour. He was a member of the government-appointed committee which proposed the Higher School Act, adopted in 1896.
context_section_description: He attended Drammen Latin School, where he was one of the first known members of the literary fraternity Silentium, and graduated with the examen artium university entrance exam in 1857. He then studied philosophy and theology (that is, Lutheran theology, the state religion of Norway) at the Royal Frederick University and obtained the cand.theol. degree in 1865. As a student, he worked as a teacher at Christiania Burgher School, a private middle school serving the affluent, from 1860. From 1862 he worked as a private tutor.
caption: Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss, photographed by Gustav Borgen
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